When many Christians
hear the word 'Fasting' ' it sends shivers and quivers through their brain. It
does the same in demons. Demons know what one dedicated Christian who
determines to start incorporating fasting with prayer has the ability through
God to stop the rain ' and to bring the rain. Demons know that as God wills,
one believer in Jesus Christ incorporating fasting with prayer can call fire
down out of heaven to destroy evil here on earth.

With power such as that
' demons also realize that if a Christians can work in cooperation with God to
do things like that ' would God miraculously send money from "heaven"
(from unexpected places in other words)
instead of manna ' should difficult economic times come where we are located?

Well ' with God, all
things are possible, to those who can believe. (See: Mark 9:23). Let us never
underestimate what God may do when a Christian believer has his or her back
seemingly against a wall of opposition. God knows how to execute
miracles, when He's moved to do so.

Many Christians are
familiar with this Bible passage from 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV):

If My people who are
called by My name will humble
themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

I've highlighted the
word 'humbled' in this passage of scripture, because I think it is very easy to
focus on the word 'prayer' in this passage, and the possible benefits that
follow once we pray and seek God's face (instead of His hand).

Humbling ourselves
follows a line of progression in our relationship with God:

1): Our decision to
allow Jesus Christ to be Savior and Lord of our life.

2): Our decision to
purpose to walk diligently in obedience to God daily in accordance to New
Testament scripture is then supposed to follow.

3): Our decision to
seek God in how He wants to use us to help expand the Kingdom of God here on
this planet should be incorporated with step two sooner than later.

4): Our decision to
be made fully available to God on a daily basis in how He may want to use
us to hinder evil around this planet through our prayer and trust in Him.

5): Our decision to
walk in the highest dimension of faith possible in God on a daily basis
so we have confidence in our prayers once we pray them.

It is this fifth
category; the last line of progression, that makes demons extremely agitated. A person who
frequently engages in unselfish prayer on behalf of God's purposes is very
threatening to demons and Satan. A person who is willing to include occasional
fasting with prayer on behalf of God's purposes is EXTREMELY
threatening.

What is so 'powerful'
about fasting, many are curious to know. Why does 'starving ourselves'
(actually limiting our intake of food for a season) move God to do things we may
never see Him do otherwise? Fasting is a
MIGHTY demonstration of humility on our
part, plain and simple.

I humbled myself with fasting- Psalm 35:13

I don't feel to do a
lengthily teaching here on pride and humility. Any Christian will do well to do
an exhaustive study on their own on these two topics. The Bible is full of
words from God about the painful things that can happen to people who give place
to pride, and the blessings God grants (promises) to those who purpose to strive
for greater acts (dimensions) of humility.

The Old Testament
provides enough scripture for us to gleam from that when evil was about to
attain a major victory against the Jewish people, God would have a call to pray
AND fast. Maybe not always fast, but many times ' YES ' include fasting
with the prayer. On some occasions, the evil was so threatening that the people
were told to not only not eat, but neither drink! (See: Esther 4:15-17).
Though it never was to last longer than three days without taking in some
liquids ' do you think God could call YOU to give up not only food, but liquids
as well for three days if the situation was warranted?

God gave people 100
years to hear what Noah knew, that a very major rainstorm was coming.
God has been speaking to the Body of Christ for many years now about end-time
issues. Do any of us know exactly how many years ago He started officially
doing that? I certainly don't know.

Dear reader ' we're
moving into end-times faster than what some may care to give much thought to.
Praise God if we get ruptured out of here and leave this evil world behind
before things become "more challenging."
Praise God if He holds off evil yet for many, many years, wherever we live. But ' what if He doesn't? What if things are about to accelerate at a
speed that tries to send shear panic through many of God's people? What if our economy
(where it is we are living)
should essentially come to a grinding halt, and we haven't got a logical clue in
how we are going to meet financial obligations or even put much food on the
table? Must believers all go find a
bridge to live under and start living out of garbage cans like the homeless
people have been doing?

Well, one does what they
have to do to survive, I fully realize. HOWEVER ' here is what I know about
God. He CAN, if He chooses, provide for His people in ways we may not
believe He would do. If God can supernaturally rein down food from the sky
to feed the Jews during their trek through the wilderness, surely He can do the
same for Christians right now. It's just a matter of God being willing to do
so. If Jesus was motivated to feed the masses with a few fish and a couple
of loaves of bread, He certainly can do the same today.

What would motivate God
to be willing to do so, for each of us? For some of us?

I believe the Holy
Spirit is trying to communicate a message to Christians RIGHT NOW to dig in with
Him and work through whatever the barriers that exist so they can build a
confidence foundation in God to fast along with their praying as the Holy Spirit
leads them to do so.

Prayer is a weapon and
fasting incorporated with prayer has awesome potential in God that we must never lose
sight of.

Let us carefully mediate
on these words God has recorded for us in Deuteronomy 8:2-3;5:

'And you shall
remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether
you would keep His commandments or not.

'So He humbled you,
allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did
your fathers know, that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread
alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.'

'So you should know
in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens
you.'

Fasting in a wise means
of humbling ourselves so God will not have to do all of it for us.

What's our ultimate
reward in all this? Deuteronomy 8:16 states it clearly:
Too do you good
in the end '

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